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Good morning, I'm looking for some help and I've heard that this group is a great support! I have Google Tag manager script on my website which is providing my Google Analytics tracking (i think). Do I need to ad anything else for Google Ads? I've linked my Google Ads account with my Google analytics account but I can't seem to get the remarketing lists to work. I'd really appreciate any advice
Good morning, I'm looking for some help and I've heard that this group is a great support!

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Tag Manager can be a bit of a handful to work with if you're not used to it & fairly tech aware. If you don't need what it brings, I'd be inclined to just cut & paste the required code into your website. If you want to use Analytic audiences to remarket (i. e. all users who've been to your site, not just be Ads), you need to create the audience via admin section of Analytics, then you can import it into Ads. It will need to a certain number of members before you can use it. Alternatively Ads maintains it's own list of visitors via Ads which can be easier to use, albeit just a subset of visitors. You should cut/paste remarketing code onto your website &/or create tag in TM.  
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Thank you so much @yet55 for your advice. I'm quite happy to just stick with Google analytics and Google Ads, that is what I am used to and I've not used Tag Manager before. My site (in fact it's my sisters site) already has Google Tag manager code tracking everything and I don't want to break anything or duplicate any data. Can I add GA tracking code and global site tags/conversion tracking etc as well as Tag manager tracking? P. S. I have created the audience list, perhaps I need to waiting for 1000 to accumulate. I just assumed it would look backwards ‍♀️
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@requital tag manager doesn't track anything itself, it's just a place to place all tags, instead of the website. Best check what's in there already as you don't want to duplicate any existing tags. If they aren't there, you can place direct on site without issue.  
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Ok great! Thank you so much for your help x
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